4/11/12 Bridgeton, Maine
This from Clark Blaise, author of (most recently) The Meagre Tarmac:
"Those ancient Homeric names were very common in Québec in the 1870-1910, if my family is any example. (As were slave-names in the States, ending perhaps with Cassius Clay). Pepere was an Achille, and among my baby aunts and uncles were an Ovide, Athenee, Eurydice, Homere, etc. but there wasn't a single Jean-Pierre or Marc-Andre among them."--C.B.
And from Brian Bartlett: "Among my ancestors from the 1700s and 1800s in New Brunswick and Maine/Massachusetts, names included Moses, Jesse, Amos, Alpheus, Adeth, Seth, Benjamin, Joshua, Samuel, Malthiah, Elisha, Nathan, Peleg, Bathsheba, Zadock & -- not Biblical but decidedly Protestant -- Luther...but I can't find a single Homeric name. Makes me wonder if the Homeric names were adopted by Quebecois Catholics but not by English Protestants. "---B.B.
p.s. PB talks about The O'Briens on youtube.
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Trucks, cars, highways, landscape, good writing. "You cannot travel on the path, before you have become the Path itself."
Friday, April 13, 2012
Spiritual Vehicles, and Clark Blaise
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